Yesterday (Sept 15th), the latest version of IE was out on the street. First impressions: Fast and very clean. Your bars are all disabled onfirst load. You will have to enable them IF you really need them.
With a little smaller memory print and a rendering engine that really is faster than IE8.
This browser is HTML 5 enabled and there is where all the fun will be in the time to come 🙂
Very worthwile taking a peak: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/

Recently came accros a “new” search engine on the web called HAKIA. Presently in Beta version (so has been Google since it came out…) it proposes search based on relevancy and not in popularity. Theoretically it will provide most accurate results. I tried a couple of searches and got interesting results for the string “geotag garmin eTrex” and a 0 resultset when searched for a more specific string “hp c01120002” (fyi is an error code for an HP laptop). Right now, I can’t tell you if it is good. I can tell you though, that usually competition pushes the market and the goodies output, so I’ll stay tunned and keep Hakiaing for a while… lets see how far it’ll go 😉

As mentioned in a previous post, the WorldWide Telescope is a new initiative which uses sky mapping with the best images acquired from the best world telescopes. It is really worth taking a look and is finally available to everyone. Check it out at www.worldwidetelescope.com.

Silverlight is growing as Moonlight sees the day light. Check the post.

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Moonlight, an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems, is now available in both Silverlight v1.o and 2.0 builds. Silverlight, while it still has a long way to go to become as widely adapted as Adobe’s Flash, is leading the charge for Microsoft to become a more open eco-system for development. Moonlight is not a Microsoft project, but Microsoft has been working together with Mono,